tickler

• In the mean time the chat went round very briskly, and dram after dram, the brandy, until the tickler was drained to the bottom. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
• And again, the terror caused by a very bad and strange dream passes the bounds of play; and one feels that the belief that a vision of the night might produce or prefigure dreadful change was for him something a great deal more serious than for the dilettante spiritualist and wonder-tickler of to-day. —  Albert Durer
• Should the boy hesitate to ascend, many of the master- sweeps had no compunction in giving him what was termed a "tickler"—that is, in lighting some straw in the grate below him. —  The Days Before Yesterday
• Long ago, says this key-tickler, when he was a youth, he was hired by Koussevitzky, then also a young fellow, to play the piano scores of the entire standard symphony repertoire. —  The World's Great Men of Music
• A very special rib-tickler, in light of current events —  Cryptome

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